I must admit it feels a little wrong to be painting Nurgle miniatures in the midst of a global pandemic. Then again perhaps getting a few of the Plague God’s minions painted up will help to convince the Lord of Decay that he really doesn’t need to be taking quite such an active interest in our species and he should bugger off and leave us in peace instead. Regardless I lay the blame firmly at the feet of Ann of Ann’s Immaterium, herself a dedicated follower of the Master of Pestilence, and her latest monthly community challenge “Paint The Crap You Already Own!“. The aim of the challenge is pretty neatly summed up by the title, instead of buying new stuff (hard to do at the moment with so many shops shut and so many miniatures out of stock) use this time to clear your unpainted backlog instead. I think we’re all very guilty (I know I am) of accruing lots of models that we’re definitely going to paint right away, until of course something distracts us and they’re left to gather dust for months, years or even decades. With everything locked down in many countries the world over now if a fine moment for hobbyists like ourselves to paint up those models that were otherwise shoved to the sidelines and complete those projects we’ve been dreaming of but not actually doing anything about. In my case the first target for this ambition is my horde of poxwalkers.
It’s been a couple of years now since I started work on assembling forty plague zombies to accompany my Death Guard collection and with only four remaining it was high time the last few came shambling over the line.
With these last corpses painted this phase of the Death Guard army is complete so soon I’ll turn my attention to the rest of the collection, most likely starting with a few more manky plague marines. Before that however let’s take a look at what forty hungry zombies looks like.
One of my key aims with this project was to make sure that every one of the zombies was unique, not always straightforward when working with single-pose models like these. Needless to say I did the converting and the zombies did the dying! There are sixteen stock poses in the range so quite a lot of adjustments went into making sure they were all different. I’ve been working on a showcase of each “set” of models, all being well I’ll round out the project by getting that posted up in the next few days.